Yesterday....

So here is the food from yesterday.

Breakfast-
Coffee w/ HC&Sweet Water
3 eggs
6 pieces of bacon

Lunch-
N a d a

Dinner-
4oz adobo beef
4oz adobo chicken
3oz lettuce
1oz Pico de gallo
1oz hot sauce
2oz cheese
3oz Guacamole!!!!
(Nice dinner at Chipotle!)

Jennifer had a friend in town with a toddler Jackson's age so I spent the evening reading and dining out. She works the next 3 nights in a row so it will be me and the little stinker each evening. Hope everyone has a good Labor day. Oh and I weighed 324 this morning so I am only .6lbs over my low. That is good I guess.

Oh and I forgetted

In my fasting haze this morning I think I forgot to mention that I went to the gym again yesterday. It is amusing to me that I enter the gym, get my workout done and leave with all of the same people there. Granted I am sure they are all like, "Wow that fat guy really doesn't stay long." However I think people spend waaay too much time at the gym. Yesterday I did arms and shoulders. I was out in 40 minutes. A long gym stay for me is 50 mins to an hour. I see the same people there. They do have some impressive muscles though. I can't fault their devotion. I remember last year when I started to show some serious muscle in my back and shoulders. It was a great feeling. I think that even if I can't lose the fat I am going to work on my muscle. It always feels good when I leave the gym with mild sorness for a couple of days. Tonight I am going to do legs at home. Lunges+squats when you weigh 325 pounds is really all you need for a good workout. Gotta use the weight for it's positives no?

Anyway, they took like 6 vials of blood from 2 arms and a urine sample. Can't wait to get all those results back. I am worried I am going to have to fight off the statin faires, but we shall see.

Anyway I just had some coffee, eggs and bacon and now my brain feels functioning again. No more doom and gloom like this morning. Hope everyone is having a wonderful day!

Around and around...

Food from yesterday:

Breakfast-
Coffee w/ HC&Sweet Water
3 eggs
3 bacon

Lunch-
4oz adobo beef
4oz adobo chicken
3oz lettuce
1oz Pico de gallo
1oz hot sauce
2oz cheese
(Nice lunch at Chipotle!)

Dinner-
4 hamburger patties
3 slices of cheese
1 Chicken Breast
2T LC Ketchup
2T LC Peanut butter later in the evening

Today I am going in for some blood work. Had a big dinner last night since now I have been fasting for 14 hours. Yay. =) Anyway I am still going downhill and wanting to cheat more each day. It is hard to keep it up seeing very little positive reinforcement.

I am sure I will snap out of it because I have to.

Hola!

Ok food for yesterday was:

Breakfast-
Coffee w/ HC&Sweet Water

Lunch-
2oz Cheese, 2oz Sausage, 2oz Tomato sauce
2 Double Cheeseburgers sans buns (bleck!)
2T PB

Dinner-
1 hamburger patty w/ cheese
1 Chicken Breast w/ Cheese
2T PB

PB+Cheese+Tomato Sauce = too many carbs yesterday. I weighed this morning and was 325 again. No surprise that a few carbs is keeping my weight up. I did go to the gym yesterday. Did Chest and Back. Fun fun. It is getting harder and harder for me to keep from cheating as no matter what I do I can't seem to consistently lose and even when I am cheating both my calories and my carbs are low enough I should be losing. This is crazy. =/

Omnivore? No no I am a musclevore. I <3 animal muscle tissue. You?

For my friend Dawn I have decided to do this little blog exercise from Very Good Taste. It is called the Omnivore's Hundred and here are the instructions and the list if other blog posters want to do this:

Below is a list of 100 things that I think every good omnivore should have tried at least once in their life. The list includes fine food, strange food, everyday food and even some pretty bad food - but a good omnivore should really try it all. Don’t worry if you haven’t, mind you; neither have I, though I’ll be sure to work on it. Don’t worry if you don’t recognise everything in the hundred, either; Wikipedia has the answers.

Here’s what I want you to do:

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (I've used italics for this).
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant.
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

I used to be quite the omnivore. =) I think I have had a few more things on the list but I am not going to look them up. Too much work today.

Induction flu again!

Well though I have stayed in Ketosis throughout the weekend I obviously had enough carbs to cause another round of induction flu. For me it presents as a brain fog. I just feel like I am working through a haze. I can deal with it for a day or two. Just shows me that small cheats or any cheats or even eating higher carbs for me can cause problems. I still haven't weighed. I can sense through my clothes there has been no change. I don't know why I am having such a hard time as I try to lose. Usually all it takes is commitment and I have had that in spades. The long lapses of not losing weight are what keep mentally derailing me. Anyway onto what I ate yesterday.

Breakfast:
3 eggs
4 pieces of bacon
Coffee w/ Sweet Water&HC (3 carbs)

Lunch:
Salad w/ BC (4 carbs)
Cajun Seasoned Steak (1 carb)
Mushrooms/peppers/onions (2 carbs)
Coffee (2 carbs)

Dinner:
2 Hamburger Patties
3T Low Sugar Peanut Butter (5 carbs)

Total Carbs:15

Not the best day for someone trying to get their carbs close to zero. Not a bad low carb day though. Still need to do better I am just not losing.

The good, the bad... and the carby.

Ok food first:
Breakfast:
3 Eggs
4 pieces of bacon
Coffee w/HC and Sweet Water (3 carbs)

Lunch:
2 Kosher Dogs (2 carbs)
1/2 Chicken Breast w/ Buffalo Sauce
1 Hamburger Patty
Coffee w/ HC&SW (3 carbs)

Dinner:
2 Kosher Dogs (2 Carbs)
1 Chicken Breast w/ Buffalo Sauce
4T of Low Sugar PB (6 carbs)

Carbs: 16 + 4 hidden = 20

Bad day for carbs. Time to rededicate once again. It is like I somehow can only pseudo fall off the wagon. Which is worse than a total fall off. Bleck. Anyway, Jennifer is working all evenings this week, but I have to make it to the gym if I am going to succeed. For some reason my focus keeps slipping. Didn't get any new info at the doctor yet, they rescheduled me for the end of September for some fasting bloodwork. They are going to test cholesterol and my thyroid. Should be interesting information. My blood pressure was high 141/90, but we are going to try to see how diet affects that. Anyway, on to work work work! I just had 3 eggs and some bacon! Mmmmm.

Quick weekend update

Saturday's meals:
Breakfast-
3 scrambled eggs
3 pieces of bacon
Coffee w/ HC&Sweet Water (3 carbs)

Lunch-
2 hot dogs (2 carbs)
1 Hamburger patty
1/2 piece of chicken breast w/ buffalo sauce

Dinner-
Lots of pizza toppings and cheese (10 carbs)

Total Carbs:15